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In “The Influence of Hollywood,” Alexandrowicz engages in a brief overview of both the history of gays and lesbians in American mainstream cinema and the representation of queer people on screen. He pays particular attention to the messages that Hollywood’s notorious homophobia—largely intact to this day—sends to young actors who aspire to find employment in professional film and television.
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This tradition, established in Hollywood’s earliest days, persists even to our time: a good example is the character Renée Zellweger played opposite Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain (2003).
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See The Lord Chamberlain Regrets…: A History of British Theatre Censorship, Dominic Shellard and Steve Nicholson with Miriam Handley (London: British Library, 2004).
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For a fascinating and cogent discussion of this topic, see David Halperin, How to Be Gay, in particular, “Queer Forever,” 454–457.
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See https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hillary-clinton-nancy-reagan-and-aids (accessed 1 August 2018).
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See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330251/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast (accessed 31 March 2019).
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See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/ (accessed 7 August 2018).
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See http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-st-kevin-spacey-20171031-story.html (accessed 27 August 2018).
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Much has been written about the role that misogyny played in Hillary Clinton’s electoral loss. See, for example, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/15/america-hillary-clinton-misogyny (accessed 9 August 2018).
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Alexandrowicz, C. (2020). The Influence of Hollywood. In: Acting Queer. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29318-5_3
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